Criminal cases happen when someone breaks a law, or commits a criminal offense, which typically results in jail time. Civil cases handle almost all other disputes, and typically aim for some sort of recovery. A criminal case is filed by the government and is led by a prosecuting attorney.

To what degree can individual rights be protected while maintaining civic order at the same time?

So basically, civil liberties are a popular issue among journalists because they see freedom of expression as a necessary safeguard for doing their work.

Takeaways: Writs of mandamus, as allowed for by the Judiciary Act of 1789, are unconstitutional; and the portion of the Act which allows for them is invalid. Judicial review is a remedy that allows a court to review acts of Congress for constitutionality and to hold that such acts are invalid if they are unconstitutional.

Does the Supreme Court have the authority to order the delivery of their commissions?

To summarize, in the case McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court considered whether Congress had the power to create a national bank and whether the state of Maryland had interfered with congressional powers by taxing the national bank. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of McCulloch and found that the state of Maryland had interfered with one of Congress’s implied powers.

What issues do you believe should be state level, federal level, or in need of influence of both? This is obviously a personal opinion question and values of each person will affect each answer so how does the gov't divide it up in an unbiased way?

Using news media to draw attention to certain issues is not exclusive to gov't officials, but common citizens too. Like we talked about in class, Gabby Petito's case is one of high media reach. At Gabby Petito's funeral yesterday, her father Joe used the highly attended and talked about funeral to discuss advice for women in relationships. Knowing the story would be broadcasted in a way, he told attendees to leave relationships that are not healthy or best for you. In this speech, he told people to take inspiration from Gabby, hoping someone could learn from her and avoid a situation as awful as her story.

This reminds me of how we discussed media bias and how the rendering of facts to fit a story influences ideas by citizens listening. In an issue with multiple levels of gov't, there is even more confusion leading to misunderstanding in citizens' minds and therefore misinformation that causes improper involvement in our democratic gov't.

American federalism is currently being tested with Texas' abortion laws as Roe V. Wade is essentially being opposed in Texas with the six week abortion ban. How the US comes out of this situation whether this legislation stays exclusive to Texas or spreads to other states will be an interesting thing to witness not only for the laws of women but a test of our two level gov't.

Reading this I automatically connected it to the US' pulling out of troops in Afghanistan but conflict still occuring whether it be American Citizens left there, opposition to the decision, and ideas that leaving Afghan citizens to the hands of the Taliban and just the Afghan military to defend not being humanitarian.

The Constitution is a living document, just like our Honor Code here at SG. As time changes since the founding of the US or the founding of SG, expectations for actions and "rules" must change with it.

Interesting how the name makes me think of the bias being for things to go through the system easy and cause efficiency but it is for discourse to occur. Also, more disagreement and obstacles created by views of people put in these positions that are all meant to have different outlooks.

Why does the Constitution leave so many aspects of our governance and our rights intentionally vague? Is it because it would have been impossible to predict the evolution of society?

Bicameralism is basically the practice of having a legislature divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single group.

In which instances would these three distinct branches of government; law making, law execution, and law adjudication overlap?

This is very well written. Troll culture and cancel culture are both what propaganda specialists refer to as information warfare methods. Both troll culture and cancel culture are from those who intentionally antagonize others.

When it comes to politics, many individuals feel uneasy because they are terrified to disagree.

It can appear all-encompassing at times, as if all kinds of current debate must now lead to an attempt to "cancel" anybody whose opinions cause controversy or to unfounded accusations of cancel culture in action.

A form of extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence.

This is very very interesting. The fact that 5 million Manchus rule over four hundred million Han. That is so crazy how such a smaller group of people can take control.

To blurry to read...

This is very interesting. "forced to accept unequal treaties with the west". I just find this interesting how this was Japan's first foreign affair that Li Hongzhang faced.

I feel that the Japanese had guts in a sense. They didn't stand down. Every change they made were made fully, making them more successful in the longer run.

dishonest

To piggyback on what Logan said, by taking China's downfalls, Japan is taking their fails and turning them into their upside in a way.

This is very interesting because of the country limiting all contacts with the outsiders, but one of the main relations kept its place; trade.

How does Chinese culture, ideas, script, and religion play a role into this relationship with Japan?